The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1887-04-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

trying to buy bait within the three mile
limit, and fired blank shot TO make her
come TO- The Yankee craft escaped.
A CONVENTION of Josephites, or Nor
mons who follow the doctrines of Joseph
Smith, began at Kirkland, o., on the 18th.
About one hundred delegates were pres
ent. This branch Of the church is opposed
to polygamy, and the attitude of the
church on that subject is the chief topic
OF discussion.
CHICAGO, not to be outdone by st. Louis,
has sent an invitation to the President to
visit that city.
PATRICK MCCARTY was hanged at FIT.
Smith, Ark. on the Sth for murder COM
mitted III the Indian Territory.
A PIRATE boat created sensation at
Atlantic Highlands N. j., on the Sth, by
helping herself to coal and firing at the
people.
AT Camptou, KY, on the Sth, james Ii.
Ross, peaceable citizen, was killed by a
drunken man named James Buchanan.
Mrs. VIRGINIA c. DIR, who has been for
twenty years matron of the Illinois Sol
diers' and Sailors Orphans Home at Nor
NAL, has been removed.
CAPTAIN MCKENZIE, the chess player,
arrived at New Orleans from Havana, on
the Sth, en- route to st. Louis to play a
match game with Max Judd.
The dead body of man supposed to be
Thomas Worth was found in a car of moss
en- route from Baton Rouge, La, to st.
Louis over the Iron Mountain road.
THE German barber Flath, who was ar
rested in Brooklyn on suspicion of being
concerned in the Railway murder, was ar
raigned before police justice on the Sth,
and was discharged. There was no evil
dence to show that he was concerned in
the matter.
The Illinois Central announces that it
has practically completed negotiation for
the purchase Of the Dubuque and Sioux
City railway.
Tue Pope has forwarded to the French
Government proposals aiming to bring
about an understanding with France with
reference to the establishment of diplo-
matte relations between the Vatican and
China
FoUR thousand two hundred and aeven-
ty-three immigrants were landed on the
Sth at Castle Garden, the largest number
in one day at this season Of the year since
Castle Garden was first used as recep-
ton place for immigrants.
CHARLES JOHNSON, the prisoner con-
victed of the murder of John Walters, a
turnkey in the Waterloo IN. W Jail on
January Q, was sentenced on the Sth to be
hanged May q, by Judge Frances A. Nc
Comber, at Waterloo. An appeal will be
taken and noticed at the the June term of
Court.
JENNIE JEFFREY HARRISON, the young
gypsy queen who died in child-bed at
jackson, Miss, December 81, 1886, was
buried IN the gypsy lot at Woodland
Cemetery, Dayton, o., on the Sth, with all
the funeral hOnors accorded in the gypsy
burial service.
THE directors of the mint, under the
provisions of section 1910 Revised Sta tues,
and with the approval of the Secretary of
the Treasury, has issued a circular invit-
ing designs for the diverse and reverse
for the silver dollar and the minor coins
of the United States An award of not
to exceed $500 will be made for each ac.
cepted set Of designs.
NEWS from Berlin is to the effect that
the police have begun an active cam paign
against Socialists in many of the larger
German towns and cities, with the result
Of discovering and selling large guam
tity of Socialistic literature and arresting
many persons holding social democratic
views.
ABOUT two hundred stonecutters EN-
| ployed in the various yards of IndianapO
lis threw down their tools on the Sth anC
refused to work until an increase from
| thirty-five TO forty-five cents an hour is
granted. The employers have deter
mined not to grant the increase under any
| circumstances.
AT convention of the prominent peach
| growers of Warren and Hunterdon coun
ties, N. j., just held, it was generally ad
mitted that the outlook favored an un
usually large crop of fruit especial,
peaches. One gentleman said the crop Of
the coming season would be the heaves
known for years.
The Rowland Clothes-pin factory be
! longing to Aldrich Il Brayman, at Custer
Mich, was burned on the night of the 9TH
Loss, $4,000; insurance, $1,000 This wa
the largest clOthes.pin factory in tn,
world, and its average daily output wa,
10000 pins. The mill will probably b.
| rebuilt
| THE Gloucester (Mass) fishermen ar,
any thing but satisfied with the Presi
dents reply to the communication o
President Steele of the National Fsherie,
Association
POLICE OFFICER JAMES NJ MOORE, o
Baltimore, Md. was shot and fatal,
wounded by Martin Gundlack, ca
driver, whom he found on the stree
! fiourishing a pistol, and whom he en-
deavored TO induce to be peacoable.
TnE Democrats and Republicans of l.
| Crosse, Wis, have fused on their municip
al ticket IN order to defeat the Socalis
tic element.
IT now transpires that the death o
! Major-General Krock, Russian Command
er at Warsaw, was the result of suicide
caused by grief on learning that his so
was implicated in the recent atte mpt t
assassinate the Car
JouN T. RAYNoND, the celebrate
comedian, died at Evansville, Ind, on tn
morning OF the 10th. from complicatio
of bowel and heart troubles. Mr.. Ray
mond was fifty years old on the 4th inst
The worlds champion base ball clut
the ST. Louis Browns, administered a sec
ond defeat to the ChicagOs at st. Louis o
the 9th, thus getting two out Of three G